Menu Options
Buffet Menu
Below is a list of items from which you can build your own Buffet menu.
Hot Canapés
- Selection of mini savouries served with tomato chutney
- Thai chicken sausage rolls with sweet chilli dipping sauce
- Caramelised onion tartlets with goat's cheese and thyme
- Mini Yorkshire puddings with rare beef and horseradish and mustard crème fraiche sauce
- Crab cakes with dipping sauce
- Grilled lamb koftas with red pepper relish
- Whitebait fritters (subject to availability)
- Grilled lemongrass pork skewers
- Coconut & Indian spiced tempura prawns
- Salmon and pesto skewers
- Oyster sauce and lemon pepper Aoraki salmon skewers
- Chilli salted squid with caper mayonnaise
- Prawn skewers with garlic aioli
- Smoky prawns and chorizo skewers
- Seared paua patties with garlic butter on toasted bread
- Seared scallops wrapped with bacon
- Satay chicken skewers served with peanut sauce
- Moroccan Lamb cutlet served with ratatouille
- Pad Thai boxes with grilled prawns & pork wontons
- Bocconcini tartlet with Cherry Tomato, Basil Pesto & Olive Pate
Chilled Canapés
- Corn Fritters with Japanese Chicken
- Salmon & spinach terrine served with Melba toast
- Coarse pork & herb terrine served with onion marmalade & Melba toast
- Grilled ciabatta bread topped with grated courgette, chilli & lime
- Selection of sushi with soy sauce
- Noodle baskets topped with prawns & coriander
- Blinis with horseradish cream and smoked salmon
- Tartlets with hummus & antipasto vegetables
- Chilled mint & pea soup with prawns
- Chilled Spanish gazpacho soup with option of oysters
- Bloody marry shots with a celery stick
- Little popovers with sour cream & salmon caviar
- Creamy chicken aioli pies in filo cases
- Potato frittata cubes with smoked salmon
- Spinach & ricotta tartlets
- Rare Beef toothpicks with cucumber ribbons and chilli salt
- Saffron roulade with lemon crème fraiche & salmon caviar
- Scallops with mint & ginger salad
- Seared scallops with lemon chilli dressing
- Fig & fennel scones with wash rind cheese & red onion chutney
- Garlic & cumin seed shortbread with selection of cheeses
- Parmesan and rosemary shortbread with roasted baby tomato and feta
- Rare beef fillet with crostini & onion marmalade
- Prosciutto wrapped Asparagus spears, with Basil Aioli.
Ribbon Sandwiches
- Chicken & sweet potato
- Salmon & watercress
- Rare beef & cress
- Chicken & coleslaw
- Smoked salmon & cucumber
- Tuna & caper mayonnaise
- Capsicum, pesto & cheddar
- Prawn & cucumber
Main Event
- Cold whole salmons with garlic aioli
- Seared groper with tomato & caper salsa
- Blue cod wrapped in pancetta with a red pepper sauce
- Yellow fin tuna steaks with mustard butter
- Barbequed marinated chicken tenderloins
- Beef fillet with a wholegrain mustard crust
- Beef fillet with crème fraiche and cracked pepper sauce
- Seared duck breast served with orange & cardamon sauce
- Stuffed chicken breast with basil pesto & mozzarella
- Parmesan crusted chicken breast served with a tomato & basil sauce
- Chicken thighs marinated in sherry thyme and oregano
- Steamed green lip mussels with white wine & cream sauce
- Minted lamb back straps
- Glazed orange and honey hot ham on the bone
- Loin of venison with redcurrant jus
- Salmon steak with sesame & soy dressing
- Pork loin stuffed with apricot and pine nuts served with applesauce
- Chicken breast with stem ginger sauce
- Cider glazed pork loin with confit of apples and shallots
Vegetarian
- Aubergine & feta folds
- Portobello mushrooms baked with blue cheese & topped with rocket pesto
- Moroccan stuffed red peppers
- Vegetable skewers
- Savoury pancakes stuffed with spinach and ricotta cheese
- Open ravioli stack with roasted pumpkin
Side Dishes & Salads
- Selection of minted new potatoes
- Potato & kumara gratin with crispy cheese crust
- Garlic and rosemary roasted potatoes
- Char grilled pear, parsnip and rocket salad
- Roasted carrot, parsnip and pumpkin salad with caraway parsley and lemon oil
- Warm new potato salad with lemon and chive dressing
- Potato salad with buttermilk and dill dressing
- Roasted kumera, capsicum and watercress salad with lime and avocado dressing
- Sautéed green been, cherry tomato and black olive salad
- Grilled Spanish onion with rocket leaf salad
- Chunky green salad with mustard & garlic dressing
- Roasted vegetable salad
- Warm Mediterranean pasta salad
- Golden kumera, asparagus and hazelnut salad with walnut dressing
- Greek salad
- Selection of steamed vegetables
- Broccoli, feta & tomato salad with mustard vinaigrette
- Caesar salad
- Roasted asparagus and avocado salad
- Steamed asparagus with garlic butter
- Potato & bean salad with mint pesto dressing
- Green salads with dressing
- Honey roasted carrots & parsnips
- Roasted vegetable & rocket salad
- Selection of bread rolls & butter
Desserts
- Chocolate dipped profiteroles
- Timarsu
- Lemon meringue pie
- Mini chocolate tarts
- Terrine of summer fruits with mascarpone or pouring cream
- Mini berry cheesecake
- Mini raspberry & cherry trifle
- Selection of berries & fruit with chocolate biscotti (this depends on the season & availability)
- Baked lemon tart
- Rhubarb fool
- Summer pudding served with cream or mascapone
- Amaretti chocolate cake
- Chocolate roulade with berry coulis
- Mini Pavlova topped with Chantilly cream & kiwi fruit
- Baked apples with a toffee sauce
- Watermelon & lime granita
- Selection of chocolate truffles
- Mini espresso mousse in chocolate cups with strawberry slices
Cheese boards
Selection of whitestone cheeses or Talbot forest cheeses.
All cheese boards come with a selection of quince & plum pastes as well as fresh grapes, crackers and breads.
- Petit fours
- Chocolate dipped long stemmed strawberries
- Chocolate and praline truffles
- Ginger kisses
- Whisky truffle figs
- Florentines biscuits
- Chocolate brownie
- Tea time petit fours
Bar Cocktails
- Rhubarb bellini
- Pimms
- Long island iced tea
- Kia royale
- Mojitos
- Bloody Mary
- Bucks Fizz
- Fruit sangria
